Sony Received a New Patent Pointing to PlayStation 5 Pro

Sony organized in recent months The Future of Gaming introduced its new generation console at the event. At this event, two different variants were introduced, one standard and one digital. However, rumors also mention the existence of a third variant: PlayStation 5 Pro.

Sony Interactive Entertainment A new PlayStation patent received by PlayStation 5 strengthens the claims about PlayStation 5 Pro. Of course, Sony has not officially mentioned that there are plans to release such a variant, so even if there is such a variant, it is unlikely that we will hear anything about this console in the next few years. However, the new patent also shows that the existence of such a console is inevitable.

Sony's new PlayStation patent

Although the application for the new patent received by Sony was made in 2019, it has only just been published. While the newly published patent confirms the existence of a 'high-end' PS5, this upgrade will include cloud gaming and PlayStation NowIt also shows that it is likely to come with the use of .

Title of the patent in technical jargon “Scalable Gaming Console CPU/GPU Design for Home Console and Cloud Gaming” happened. The patent contains the following paragraph:

"In a multi-GPU simulation environment, frame buffer management can be implemented by implementing multiple GPUs that render individual video frames, or by rendering separate portions of each frame of the video. One of the GPU's controls is the HDMI frame output of complete frames received via frame information from another GPU and read through physically connected HDMI output ports. Or the outputs of the GPUs can be multiplexed together."

In another paragraph in the patent, "SoC technology can be applied to video simulation consoles such as game consoles. Specifically, a single SoC can be supplied for the 'light' version of the console. Meanwhile, Multiple SoCs can be supplied for the 'light' version." with higher processing and storage capacity Available for high-equipped console. The high-spec system can accommodate more RAM and other features, and is also available for a cloud-optimized version that uses the same game console chip with more performance.” statements were included.

The 'highly equipped' reference given in the patent PlayStation 5 ProIt's pretty easy to notice that it points to . However, it should be reminded that there is still no official statement on this issue. Moreover, the patent states that high performance in the high-equipped version is achieved not with new hardware, but with via cloud It is stated that it will be presented. In other words, PS5 Pro may become flesh and blood in the future, but it is unlikely to follow a similar method with PlayStation 4 Pro.